HERE’S MUD IN YOUR EYE

Dean has boasted to many folks this year that we had no rain during the times that we were driving – after the deluge we ran through just getting out of Bremerton in the first place – and that the RV and CR-V still looked pretty clean..

So, after more than three months on the road, we got caught this week in an unusual combination of events. On the morning we planned to leave Choke Canyon State Park enroute to John Garner State Park, fog had rolled in, and everything was drippy wet. The fog cleared off by the time we left, and the driving was not troublesome. The roads still had some damp spots, but they were never wet.

As we motored up the way, we passed a sign that neither of us had ever seen alongside any road.

What the heck was that all about??? We soon found ourselves surrounded by vegetable farms and concluded that the trucks hauling the produce to market probably tracked mud on the road as they left the field .But the crops had long ago been harvested; in fact, the fields were being tilled for the next crop. The roads looked fine.

Surprise! There must have been enough residual dirt/dust on the road that the fog moisture did in fact make it into mud. When we arrived at the park, we found the lower sides of the RV were “painted” a beautiful reddish grey, and the little CR-V looked like a potato just pulled from the ground. It couldn’t even be driven until we wiped some of the coating from the windshield and windows. Yuk!!   

We were so busy finding and wetting rags to clean off the hitch so we could disconnect and then cleaning off the CR-V windows so we could drive that we didn't get the actual picture.  But it looked a lot like this.

As luck would have it, the park had no restrictions about washing vehicles, so both of them got enough of a bath to be presentable as we headed farther north and west.
Our RV was pretty dirty too on par with our experience on the Alaskan dirt roads. 

What a mess!